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Know where you are – Breadcrumbs Inspiration

Breadcrumbs are user friendly navigation system it indicates where the user exactly. Breadcrumbs are more meaningful and web usable element in a web design. If the web site is having more than 2 level navigational system, definitely it requires the breadcrumbs.

Most of the Corporate web sites will be having the breadcrumbs. Those all are very conventional and executed normally. In modern web designers change the way of breadcrumbs and make it very innovative and creative.

I had collected very little numbers of breadcrumbs. Some of them you may see it somewhere. This article had splited in to 2 sections. The first section will have the showcase of breadcrumbs and the second section will have how to create breadcrumbs.

If you know the breadcrumb site that I missed, please continue in the comments area.

1. Breadcrumbs Showcase

1. Biocompare
Biocompare

2. Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts

3. Bell
Bell

4. Grooveshark
Grooveshark

5. Launchpad
Launchpad

6. IDEO
IDEO

7. Devlounge
Devlounge

8. Apple
Apple

9. Vector Valley
Vector Valley

10. Cool Spotters
Cool Spotters

11. Typepad
Typepad

12. Vector Tuts
Vector Tuts

13. Dell
Dell

14. XEROX
Xerox

15. Symantec
Symantec

16. Adobe
Adobe

2. How to Create Breadcrumbs

17. Simple Scalable CSS Based Breadcrumbs
Veerle'' Blog
Veerle shared her experience with breadcrumbs and she had written an article for how to do a breadcrumbs.
It’’s a basic simple article with html, css source.

18. Smarter Breadcrumbs: jBreadCrumb
jBreadcrumb
jBreadCrumb is a jQuery plugin for displaying breadcrumb navigations in a more flexible & smarter way.

As the length of a breadcrumb menu may be very long & the common method used for this problem is limiting th eamount of menus used, jBreadCrumb follows another route.

I hope you enjoy this post. Share your thoughts in the comments area.

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5 Responses

03.28.09

So interesting. I have heard of cookies, but not bread crumbs. Thanks for the post. Also if you have time, check out my logo contest at logo blog. You can win some great prizes. Thanks again!

03.28.09

Breadcrumbs are usability and accessiblitly must haves. I’m bust on adding them to my site as part of an overhaul, some deffinate food for thought.

Thanks for compiling the list!

03.28.09

thank you for your comment. jquery and veerle’s are best resource for creating the bread crumb.

С этой статьи начинаю читать Ваш блог. +1 подписчик :)

03.28.09

Добрый вечер! А можно ли ссылочками с вами обменяться?

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